A card to give someone that really makes you happy! :) The stamp is from Marianne Design and comes with a nice die to cut it out with. :)
The leaves/branches are a wonderful punch from Martha stewart Crafts.

Last fall, my brother in law and his girlfriend and visited with us at The Castle. We took a little day trip to our vacation home to check that everything was ok for the winter. Our summer cottage? Well, it's Gripsholm Castle. ;) A small and pretty cottage, right? ;)

On the outer courtyard you can find The boar and sow, there are two lucid guns that we took in the war in Russian Narva 1581 and Ivangorod 1612, they have been on Gripsholm since 1623. They was made from 1577 to 1579 and I must say that they are in a wonderful condition despite being well over 400 years old. Can you tell that I love history? ;)

I have, as I often do, used a lot of Prima products. I really like the ability to create my own pattern paper and being able to color flowers and decorations to any color as I want.

Our table for New Years Eve went in white and silver. To make that little extra for the napkins, I dipped some feathers in Prima Marketings Art Basics Glitter. Down below can you watch a little tutorial.

Fold a regular paper in the middle and place under the feathers. Add glitter until you are satisfed with the result, I used A LOT! :) Since you have fold a paper, you can easily put back the glitter that has fallen of the fearher and use again.

To secure the glitter, use ordinary hairspray and let it dry properly.

A little box that I've painted with light gold paint from Martha Stewart and then decorated with all sorts of flowers and leaves. I have filled it with a lot of tea lights by PartyLite and a matchbox which I simply decorated with some washi tape. I'm gonna give this as a thank-you-gift the hostess of a dinner soon to come. :)

For New Year's so I was so sick of my nails in Christmas-red glitter, and in the last moment before the guests arrived, I painted on a black nail-polish and sprinkled them with a wonderful gold glitter from Prima Marketing Art Extra Vagance. It's super fine grains in these glitter so the nails will not be that strive and ugly looking that some other glitter will make. LIKE! And there's plenty of great colors, check out the pictures below. :)

And here's a tip, if you put on a QuickDry-coat (topcoat) on top of your wet and colored lacquer, it will dry immediately. I paint one hand and directly after the fifth nail is painted, I go back to the first nail and put on a transparent QuickDry-coat and after I have done the same with hand number two, the first hand has already dried. Try it, it actually works. :) I painted my nails 10 minutes before guests arrived and I had my polish intact despite cooking and Champagne-opening.